The Little Child Admonished
Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712
Image Title: The Little Child Admonished
Description: A mother admonishes her child, as two older children watch. The Dutch artist and poet Jan Luiken (1649-1712) was responsible for drawing and etching this emblem and for the brief poem that accompanies it (below). The attendant Scripture texts are Ps 5:6; Pvb 12:17-19; 13:1-4; and 20:17.
Motto:
Learn the difference between bad and good.
So thou dost wisely refrain and act.
Poem:
The mouth that lies poisons the Soul,
So said the pious Wise Man:
If all children would remember this,
That would make the Parents happy;
For otherwise the little child will learn to lie,
From the time she wears long skirts.
(Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker)
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